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Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

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James Barrett Reston

James Barrett Reston

James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 - December 6, 1995) (nicknamed "Scotty") was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times , he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalist of his era.

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